Thursday, July 24, 2008

The Missing Strawberries, or Ten Vicious Attacks on Charles Johnson Before Breakfast

Sources inform me that I have been banned from commenting at LGF for making a vicious -- vicious, I tell you! -- comment about Charles the other day. BabbaZee linked to the post, the hyper-vigilant Charles noticed it, and he immediately capped his most amusing and self-aggrandizing commenter. So at least old yellowstain puts principle -- or paranoia -- above self-interest, as his blog continues to auto-Sullivanize into a monolithic frat of anti-intellectual gee-howdies who know as much about theology and metaphysics as I do about web design and bicycling.

Imagine if I banned all of the people who make vicious comments about me, such as, "Bob, I disagree with you." To be honest, I've never banned a single person, although I have asked a couple of them to go away, mainly because they are just too stupid and/or annoying to understand what is going on here. I've never banned anyone for criticizing me, because in nearly every instance, the criticism is self-refuting, especially as it moves up the hysteria scale or down the materialist scale. As I've mentioned before, I don't even like it when other Raccoons reflexively defend me from these folks, unless they do so in a way that is funnier than the criticism -- which is almost always intrinsically funny if looked at from a sufficient height. In fact, I would be honored if Charles would link to this post, so we can see on a first hand basis how funny his dopey commenters would be!

Being that cyberspace persecutors are everywhere sapping his precious bodily fluids, Charles is a busy man, and can't possibly have noticed my previous vicious comments about him -- about his increasingly anti-intellectual rabble of illibertarian commenters and about what LGF has turned into, with its irrational lurch into a scientistic wacko chamber of substitious idolaters. Therefore, I've extended the courtesy of assembling them all in one place, so he can ban me retroactive to June 14, 2008, when I began addressing the subject. This is only the first ten. I'll post some more on the weekend.

1) As Charles Darwin wrote, "While nature, making procreation free, yet submitting survival to a hard trial, chooses from an excess number of individuals the best as worthy of living, thus preserving them alone and in them conserving the species, man limits procreation, but is hysterically concerned that once a being is born it should be preserved at any price."

Nah, just pulling your leg. That was Adolf Hitler explaining his values -- which he derived from immanent nature, not the transcendent Absolute -- in Mein Kampf. As someone once said, fascism in all its forms is the violent resistance to transcendence. Therefore, Charles at LGF, or the goons at dailykos, or any other flatland guardians, are not Nazis, since they engage in non-violent resistance to transcendence, as do the ACLU, or People for the American Way, or any other anti-religious activist and/or bigot or plain old ignoramus.

2) You see, the blinkered Lizard thinks that life only points down and back to the dead matter out of which it was magically given birth. But for the Raccoon, life is a symbol (symbol meaning "thrown across") that again points "up" and "in." We do not see life as a circular series of lateral mutations, but an open spiral that ultimately rejoins whole and part, absolute and relative, time and eternity, center and periphery, man and God.

And human beings are the "axis" or "pivot" of the whole existentialida. Deep down we all recognize this, albeit often in a garbled and perverted manner, for example, the environmental hysterics or the pompous and deluded LGFers who know they are superior to biology, but have no idea how or why.

Life! If Darwinism is all there is, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. I have no respect for a reductionistic Lizard who is not a nihilist and a sociopath, for he is merely a weakling and coward who lacks basic intellectual honesty and the courage of his convictions. He has his feet planted in the soil of Judeo-Christian values, even while he has his head planted in his ass.

3) Again: to have the courage of one's convictions and to fully inhabit the Darwinist world of the scientistic imagination would be to live as an animal, not a human. Remember, to a Darwinist, a human being can be nothing other than an animal, pure and simple. Along the lines of our last couple of posts, there can be no radical discontinuity between human and animal -- or matter and Truth, behavior and Virtue, accident and Beauty, etc. It is a subhuman world unfit for Man. Which is again why none of them actually live there. They're all frauds, phonies, and crude loudmouths, including, sad to say, the Head Lizard.

4) Any Lizard who claims their life is meaningful in the context of reductionistic Darwinism is strictly fooling themselves. I won't argue with them, because there is no reason to take them seriously for even a single moment. If they don't understand this, they are either stupid or intellectually dishonest. The same applies without qualification to morality, beauty, and truth. Obviously, I will not waste my time "debating" someone who simultaneously believes in Darwinism and truth, as if the latter could ever be derived from former.

I notice that the unsophisticated commenters at LGF also have a caricatured view of the scientific endeavor, as if it is a strictly mechanical process that results from "facts + induction" -- as if it requires no imaginative leaps, or an overarching paradigm in order to even perceive a fact! I cannot see that any of them are the least bit acquainted with the philosophy of science, e.g., people like Whitehead and Polanyi.

One stupidly arrogant Lizard even said in response to one of my queries that he believed in "absolute facts" but not "absolute truth." How to even begin to respond to such sophistry? There is no fact that "speaks for itself," no experience that tells us what we are experiencing. To paraphrase Weaver, only by knowing little may we know much; logic depends on our "metaphysical dream," not vice versa. And it should go without saying that it is this Dream that unites men, not the logic. Nazis and Islamists are rational within the logic of their sick dreams.

5) Horizontal folks -- flatland materialists, secular pneumapaths, left-brainers, MENSA members, Lizards, et al -- love to sneer at religion and exalt the superiority of science or mere reason in understanding the world. But when they do this, they always deal with a caricature of religion based upon their own limited horizontal understanding. In this regard, they are very much like children or primitive people who cannot transcend their narrow cognitive horizons, and mock what they do not understand.

Science can never account for the scientist, that is, for the human subject capable of knowing real truth. Again, it simply assumes the existence of truth-bearing scientists, as if this is not deeply philosophically problematic. How can the watered-down evolution of reductionistic Darwinism ever account for that? It can only pretend to do so, again, by confusing the rays with the sun. But to understand Darwinism is to have transcended it.

6) The problem is, Darwinism should be taught as science, not metaphysics, but virtually all of the middlebrow Lizards absurdly elevate it to a quasi-religious metaphysic that is logically self-refuting at every turn. In turn -- and I have noticed this, for example, in many threads at LGF -- militant atheists do indeed confuse Darwinism with metaphysics, and blindly defend it with the same belligerence as any "fundamentalist." Light simply cannot break through their hardened defenses.

Religion easily accommodates science, while the reverse can never be true. Religion accommodates science for the same reason that our minds do. For our minds are designed to know truth, pure and simple, whether it is empirical truth, rational truth, artistic truth, moral truth, or metaphysical truth. Intelligence itself is prior to what it knows, and what it knows is truth (otherwise, “knowledge” is a meaningless, even absurd term). Therefore, intelligence is truth itself implanted within our being, or a prolongation of the Absolute within the relative.

7) Yesterday while commenting at LGF, I couldn't help noticing how the reductionistic Darwinists practice a sort of inverse mysticism, in that they elevate what can only be ceaseless change into eternal truth. With reductionistic Darwinism, all is change; everything is "on the way" to something else that is equally temporary. In such a paradigm, not only can truth not exist, but we couldn't know it anyway; the quantification of knowledge undermines its only meaningful measure, which is the intellect in light of the Absolute.

In a way, this is a caricature of Buddhist metaphysics, as it too advances what amounts to a paradox, i.e., "all is flux," so that it is folly to become attached to the passing stream of maya. However, the ignorant Lizards are missing a very important point, that being that it is possible to escape maya both from "above" and "below," and this makes all the difference, as the latter is actually a deeper plunge into its snares, a point that the -- let us say, less spiritually gifted -- LGF commenters never stop proving.

8) In other words, the Buddhist transcends the flux of maya in order to know the eternal, the transcendent Absolute, whereas the Darwinist Lizard goes the other route and identifies eternity with matter. Naturally this makes no sense in a cosmos that is itself contingent and evolving, but there you go. Metaphysically consistent they are not. There is a rebellious streak in them that is very similar to the left (who also escape reality from "below," except in their case, instead of becoming Darwinist "monotheists" they descend into the fragmented polytheism of multiculturalism, moral relativism, deconstruction, etc.).

In reality, they are two sides of the same worthless coin, just as, say, the Semitic and Eastern religions are two sides of an infinitely precious coin. I am disappointed that Charles can fall for this junk metaphysics -- just as he expressed disappointment in me -- but in my case I have an excuse, because I only want to be disappointed by the best. I do note that he clearly possesses a kind of peerless left brained, technological kind of lizardy wizardry, and that may be the issue, for every gift carries a potential curse. Every savant is an idiot in certain areas.

9) The scientific reductionist, like a machine, "has reversed the roles, turning its creators into its own creatures; it escapes the control of intelligence as such from the moment that it claims to define the nature of intelligence from the outside and below" (Schuon). People forget that the quantification of all knowledge "necessarily entails an inward impoverishment, unless accompanied by a spiritual science that re-establishes unity and maintains equilibrium."

This is one of the points I attempted to make at LGF, but to no avail. The bulk of commenters there seem to think that the "wall of separation" between church and state (itself a willful disunderstanding) must somehow extend to science and religion. Talk about a "wedge strategy"! But American schools are not failing because of "too much religion" (and by this I do not mean a religion, but simply a more sophisticated transcendental viewpoint that easily accommodates religion as such). To the contrary, our schools only began to fail after they were taken over by the radical secularists of the left. It could hardly be otherwise. What did you expect, wisdom?

10) Scientistic materialists -- including Lizards and other radical Darwinists -- are like defoliants, or people who would take an axe to this beautiful tree that has organically grown over the past 2000+ years. When you mess with the fundamental vision that holds a culture together "from the inside," you are messing with the equivalent of nuclear physics on the collective human plane: an Adam smasher, if you will. You just have no idea what you will unloose from the bowels of hell.

Human beings do not live in world of sense-data. But the postmodern vertical barbarians do. In their small Lizard minds, they are "liberated" from the "childish mythologies" of the past. In my opinion, Charles is quite naive about the inevitable implications of such an intrinsically anti-human ideology. The other day, one of the mutual readers of LGF and One Cosmos was also commenting on the increasing lurch into anti-intellectualism of the former, noting that his rabbi -- an eminent scholar -- had spent his entire life studying the Torah, and yet, had not even scratched its surface.

But it takes no learning -- let alone, wisdom -- for a jackbooted mob of metaphysical yahoos to, as the reader put it, "pontificate with grand self-assuredness that they know fully what is meant in all the intricacies and layers of Torah and the rest of us believers are a bunch of deluded dummies. There's nothing to be said to such people." Indeed, like gleeful, deicidal three year-olds, these Lizards can tear down in the space of five minutes what it took 3000 years of spiritual genius to build, from Moses to Sandy Koufax.

Gosh, Bob. You got voted off of the lifeboat? I guess that leaves more for the rest over there. Let the dead bury the dead and all that.

Glad we're on a heir-craft carrier here. Plenty of room for all sorts of happy Raccoons and disagreeable Lizards alike. Why do they insist on staying in the dingy dinghy, cast about by every wind and wave?

Like the silly dwarfs in The Last Battle, they cannot fathom your actual good will toward them, so they huddle closer and convince themselves you're a devil.

It's a shame I stopping reading LGF after the whole disagreement between Charles and the folks at Gates of Vienna. Charles thought they were wrong and he was right, but it became more then that. They weren't just wrong they were evil. Suddenly allies in fight against the Islamists were thrown in the same category as the Islamists and dam anyone who thought differently. It's as if the fight became personalized. It is so important to be right that it becomes a kind of tyranny. It seems to be quite common. Personally, my coming to God has been one lesson in humility after another. But I don't feel beaten down by it all. It is actually refreshing to know that we are surrounded by bigger things then us. Truth is bigger then us, Beauty, and of course God. You don't have to be right all the time. In fact I'm surprised how often I'm wrong. But I know I'm in higher hands. Imagine how scary it is for a flat lander to be wrong when all they have is their ego and their body, because they don't believe in anything else. It leads to madness, and I find it all to common these days. We are not built to be without God.

You are in good company among many of those Charles has banned from LGF. He is a good guy, but he can be heavy-handed.

By the way, the "evolution" of LGF is a very interesting subject in and of itself.

If you look at the archives from before the September Eleventh atrocities, it was all music, bicycles, and such. The political and kulturkampf elements came in after that.

I think that LGF is generally sound on the Tour de France, acoustic guitar pickers, and the cultural conflict between the Dar Al Islam and the Dar Al Harb, but generally unsound on renascent European nationalisms, Christianity, and the Darwinian Theory of Evolution.

Unlike a leftst groupuscule, we should accept what is good and where we share common ground, and ignore the wrongheaded aspects.

Animal trainers teach that the best way to make a behavior disappear is to ignore it, anyway.

I don't think I've been banned yet, mostly because I didn't 'press the issue' RE: 910 Group/GOV. Perhaps I'm saving my last comment for something that will really blow Chuckles' mind before he bans me. Dunno.

By the way, the food was too heavy to throw over the edge, so I floated it out the side. There were no good openings, so I went into the room with all of the black liquid and cut a hole in the side. It wouldn't sink so I set the raft I put it on... on fire!

"The blog site Little Green Footballs has slandered Discovery Institute, whether intentionally or not, by implying that we are in league with Islamic radicals in Turkey. They base this fantasy, apparently, on a CBC radio report of a year ago that was so poorly researched that it called Discovery Senior Fellow David Berlinski "Paul Berlinski" and referred to us as the "Christian Discovery organization." Then they interview a host of people of varying views in Turkey who are critical of Darwinism and imply that they are all connected. They seemingly imply Discovery's involvement in this situation based on the fact that Berlinski was invited to speak at a conference held by the municipal government of Istanbul last year. Big deal. (Berlinski, by the way, is a secular Jew, so work with that fact for a while, boys.)"

Good grief! I would be angry as hell if someone accused me of collaborating with terrorists.

Ironic... Charles is doing the same thing Dan Rather did, in essence. Slandering without any evidence whatsoever!This is actually worse than slander, IMO.

Also..."Food: Raccoons feed mostly along streams and lakes, finding food under rocks and in the mud. Their diet includes crayfish, fish, lizards, frogs, small mammals, birds, eggs, various fruits, nuts and grains. Before eating, captive raccoons often appear to "wash" their food by dunking it in water, but the real reason for this behavior is not known."

To understand it fully, one would have be familiar with Sullivan's writing seven years ago and then be familiar with his weird shift to the left that started with small hints of insanity followed by a rabid landslide into pure madness.

Auto-Sullivanization would therefore be the process of rendering a blog unreadable through the gradual ingestion of irrationality and leftist dogma.

This is particularly true of blogs that started off as clear and compelling takes on reality.

banned you for the same reason so many on the left ban him; you're a threat to his world view.

LGF as a site is such a hodge-podge of brilliance and stupidity that it boggles the mind. It's amazing that one who can demonstrate the Rathergate memos were fake can't take the time and open his eyes to see God.

Charles also fails to see that a nation of Darwinist flat-earthlings will not defend itself from the Islamists he warns us about. Rather, with no transcendent principles animating us, we will go the way of old Europe.

Y'know, I never was able to hang by the tempicular thread of hope that I'd stumble upon the LGF site when he had open registration. Which thing keeps me from visiting a site often. That goes for Michelle Malkin as well.

Still, maybe I'll set the Lizard feed out and troll for a spot. With so many defections from the den, there should be an open registration soon.

Gagdad Bob said "For a Darwinist Lizard, anyone who puts his genes on the line to defend a transcendent principle must be an IDIOT."

Francis Bacon, with some error's, began with a reasonable reform, the proposition that we should render unto religion that which is religious, and unto science that which is scientific… but, due to some flawed assumptions, that has developed and been transformed into we should rend that which is religions from the heart of that which is man that he should know only that which is scientifismic.

The end result has been the denial not only of transcendent principles, but principles as such, and reality to boot.

Those who are unaware of the history from then to now, are easy prey to it. Those who swallow it, will be consumed by it.

. With reductionistic Darwinism, all is change; everything is "on the way" to something else that is equally temporary.

Why can't the scaly ones see that this is precisely the same mindset that believes the Constitution to be a "living document"? It's a pernicious conceit of feeble minds to willingly cast off what their very being is screaming at them to be Truth. How then, do Lizards view the Constitution and those activists judges who have bought into the same folly?

Good evening folks:The whole business with LGF is sad, and disappointing. But in the Transdimentional Order of Raccoons, and the Feral Nation there is everyone and everything I come to the the innernet for. There is nothing to miss at LGF except old times. I'm tired of it.But lgf has served its purpose in the great scheme of things. It was the great tent to all of us in the post 9/11 center right of cyberspace. We came, we gathered, we found what we were called to find. And now it's time to go. I feel like it is the Lizards who have been winnowed out, and the Coons and the Ferals remain.

After all- We are the ones we've been waiting for!

(Ducks, and runs before the pelting with cyber tomatoes ensues)Love ya' all.

Did anyone notice how he was drooling over the title of "the master debunker" when it is actually other people who come to that site with article snips, links, pics, and their own extensive knowledge of the subject, and do all of the heavy lifting. I cut school the year it was taught, but what do you call it when someone takes credit for other peoples work? Why people feed that mans ravenous ego is beyond my comprehension. Maybe it's repressed guilt that makes him lash out and pull the plug on folks if they don't stay on their knees in adoration and have a huge bump on their foreheads from pounding their heads into his prayer-less rug?

There was something about LGF that turned me off a long time ago. It seemed like it was not much more than a news snippet about some Islamic atrocity and than tons of snarling comments followed.

I've winnowed my reading list to OC, American Digest, Am Thinker, Yankeefarm.net and a few other occasional site visits.

One of my first blog experiences was with Sullivan right after 9/11. Read him regularly until he started going insane around the gay marriage issue. I've noticed that he's managed to make himself mostly irrelevent...rarily mentioned by other leading blogs or invited to news shows anymore. Perhaps the aids drugs have taken his brain away.

I'm just happy to live in a quiet corner of the coon lodge...now if Dupree would just turn down the music to 10.

Dearest Admiral,I hope you enjoyed writing that, half as much as I enjoyed reading it. Especially, from the first shot, if you can call it that, since it was more like a double-barrel, double-shotted broadside 10 cannon salute.

Thanks for the link Susannah. From the article Susannah linked to:"Before Kant, universals were sought to understand the particulars; after Kant, particulars were used to construct the universals. It was a program destined to fail, for two reasons.

Unhinged from universals, things like ethics, morality, and religious beliefs are determined by the winds of prevailing opinion. Also, because particulars are limited and finite, one can never be sure that some future observation won’t nullify the universal constructed."

What to do? I've been offered a commission on the LGF Lifeboat from a Lizard-emeritus.

Shall I go there in an effort to get banned? I could use the Raccoon Creds such a "pelt" would afford, since my blog is a definite drag on my street cred around here.

Shall I go there with intent to enlighten them, in my own gentle and non-provocative manner?

I shall go a'questing, like Don Quixote and my namesake, d'Arc, to convince the heathen with Might, seeing they will stubbornly cling to wrong-headed and destructive ideas about the Real World, they must be physically humbled that their souls may follow!

And now, I shall keep vigil and prepare myself for battle. I do hope to win for the Ferals such accolades as become a Raccoon.

Anon I shall tell you of my secret name and report from the front lines.

Van, Susannah - Y'all will appreciate this, people here seem to like coincidences - my wife and I are watching the movie that article takes its title from, "No Country For Old Men". (Given all the stuff we have to do after the kids go to bed, it takes us two or three nights sometimes to get through a movie.)

A world where people do such things is not desirable for anyone, right? Especially if you know the rewards that can come from deep and personal connections with other people. (Besides, what would have happened if the main character had done the right thing from the start?) The fact that consequences exist in this world for such behavior is a pretty good indicator that such behavior isn't a good idea, tempting though it may sometimes be.

More, "everything we know about physics" doesn't change. NASA still uses Newton's laws of motion, with a couple of relativistic fudge factors, to pilot their spaceships about the solar system. New theories have to account for every bit of the data the old ones did - make the same predictions, or better - as well as explaining something new. Old "universals" don't go away, the "new universals" include them.

Life! If Darwinism is all there is, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. I have no respect for a reductionistic Lizard who is not a nihilist and a sociopath, for he is merely a weakling and coward who lacks basic intellectual honesty and the courage of his convictions. He has his feet planted in the soil of Judeo-Christian values, even while he has his head planted in his ass.

A hook like that should lay an intelligent Darwinist [sic] out flat. A lizard, however, can be quite stubborn. They will stand with broken teeth and swollen eyes, adjust their mortarboard, and foolishly attribute their perseverance to a strong mind rather than a very thick skull.

In the same vein, I recently found myself playing warden to some lizard friends of mine (in spirit, not name) who are constantly guilty of camping on the piedmont while claiming there is no mountain.

Reductionists, like environmentalists, multiculturalists, and a host of other ~ists are hard at work building 'ramblers for humanity' in the wadi. Funny, you never see a postbox for the architects there.

Racoons are a bit different. They like the product so much, they bought the company~

Boy am I glad there's a place where intelligent people can go where they won't be bullied by Charles overzealous site! I got banned as far as I can tell for correcting Charles and proving my point. When he feels strongly about something, he resorts to attacking the poster and letting his henchmen do the dirty work. His site is turning into a weird hybrid Fark type site.

"LGF as a site is such a hodge-podge of brilliance and stupidity that it boggles the mind. It's amazing that one who can demonstrate the Rathergate memos were fake can't take the time and open his eyes to see God."

What About Bob?

Who spirals down the celestial firepole on wings of slack, seizes the wheel of the cosmic bus, and embarks upin a bewilderness adventure of higher nondoodling? Who, haloed be his gnome, loiters on the threshold of the transdimensional doorway, looking for handouts from Petey? Who, with his doppelgägster and testy snideprick, Cousin Dupree, wields the pliers and blowtorch of fine insultainment for the ridicure of assouls? Who is the gentleman loaffeur who yoinks the sword from the stoned philosopher and shoves it in the breadbasket of metaphysical ignorance and tenure? Whose New Testavus for the Restavus blows the locked doors of the empyrean off their rusty old hinges and sheds a beam of intense darkness on the world enigma? Who is the Biggest Fakir of the Vertical Church of God Knows What, channeling the roaring torrent of 〇 into the feeble stream of cyberspace? Who is the masked pandit who lobs the first water balloon out the motel window at the annual Raccoon convention? Who is your nonlocal partner in disorganized crimethink? Shut your mouth! But I'm talkin' about bʘb! Then we can dig it!

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